Resident John Burke is hoping to illuminate the sidewalks and streets of Newtown Borough for the 19th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
“I want to do this in honor of the first responders who gave their lives helping others on September 11, 2001,” Burke told borough council this week. “And the goal is to have luminaries lining the streets of the borough in honor of those first responders.”
For the next few weeks leading up to the anniversary Burke will be selling luminary kits to interested residents, business and property owners to be used to line sidewalks and streets on Friday evening, September 11th. Each kit, available for $10 each, includes 12 luminary bags, 12 candles and some sand to anchor each individual bag to the ground.
“Believe it or not it’s been 19 days since that horrible day,” said Burke of the terrorist attack on America that killed 2977 people, including 265 on four hijacked planes, 2,606 at the World Trade Center in New York and 125 at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.